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 Weird Presidential Trivia

PRESIDENTS WITH THE SAME LAST NAMES:

 John Adams

John Quincy Adams

George H.W. Bush

George W. Bush

William H. Harrison

Benjamin Harrison

Theodore Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Andrew Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson

LETTERS NOT BEGINNING PRESIDENTIAL LAST NAMES (9):

D, I , O, Q, S, U, X, Y, Z

LETTERS NOT BEGINNING PRESIDENTIAL FIRST NAMES(11):

E, I, K, N, O, P, Q, S, V, X, Y

MATCHES BETWEEN THE ABOVE TWO GROUPS (5):

I, O, S, X, Y

LAST NAME FIRST LETTERS WHICH APPEAR ONLY ONCE:

E, K ,L ,N, V

FIRST NAME FIRST LETTERS WHICH APPEAR ONLY ONCE:

B, D, L, V, Z

MOST POPULAR PRESIDENTIAL FIRST NAME LETTER:

10 Presidents had first names beginning with the letter J. Five of those were

named James. Four are John.

MOST POPULAR PRESIDENTIAL LAST NAME LETTERS

C= 5*

H=5

*With the election of Bill Clinton in 1992, H lost it's lead and is tied

for popularity.

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PRESIDENTS WHO DID NOT GO TO COLLEGE:

George Washington

Andrew Jackson

Martin Van Buren

Zachary Taylor

Millard Fillmore

Abraham Lincoln

Andrew Johnson

Grover Cleveland

Harry S. Truman

REPEAT PRESIDENTIAL HOME STATES:

VIRGINIA : 8

OHIO : 8

NEW YORK : 4

MASSACHUSETTS : 4

TEXAS: 3

NORTH CAROLINA: 2

VERMONT:2

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ONLY NON-REPEATING PESIDENTIAL PARTY IN OFFICE:

Andrew Johnson: Union Party

MOST POPULAR PARTY IN PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY:

REPUBLICAN : 18

PRESIDENTIAL BIRTH MONTHS:

MOST FREQUENT: OCTOBER (6)

LEAST " " ": JUNE

(JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH & APRIL EACH HAVE FOUR PRESIDENTS TO CLAIM)

EARLIEST BORN PRESIDENT:

George Washington: 2/22/1732

FIRST PRESIDENT BORN IN THE 19TH CENTURY:

Franklin Pierce: 11/23/1804

LAST PRESIDENT BORN IN THE 19TH CENTURY:

Dwight D. Eisenhower: 10/14/1890

FIRST PRESIDENT BORN IN THE 20TH CENTURY:

Lyndon B. Johnson: 8/27/1908

FIRST PRESIDENT TO PASS AWAY IN THE 21st CENTURY:

Ronald Wilson Regan on June 5th, 2004

BORN ON THE 4TH OF JULY:

Calvin Coolidge: 7/4/1872

THE AVERAGE AGE OF A PRESIDENT WHEN ELECTED TO OFFICE: 

54

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PRESIDENTS WHO DIED IN OFFICE:

AVERAGE AGE FOR A PRESIDENT WHO DIED IN OFFICE:

58

(Note that William McKinley was precisely that age when he was assassinated)

DIED ON THE 4TH OF JULY:

THE ONLY PRESIDENTS TO DIE ON THE EXACT SAME DAY:

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson: 7/4/1826..... 4th of July!!

*James Monroe also died on July 4th, but in 1831!

PRESIDENTIAL DEATH MONTHS:

MOST FREQUENTLY USED MONTH TO DIE: JULY (7)

LEAST " " " : MAY (0)

JUNE IN SECOND PLACE WITH 6 PRESIDENTIAL DEATHS

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PRESIDENTIAL DEATH AGES:

(Presidential death ages range over a period of 44 years, from age 46 to 93)

MOST POPULAR PRESIDENTIAL DEATH-AGE DECADE:

11 Presidents died in their 60's!

3 died at age 67! This is the most repeated age at which a President died.

YOUNGEST:

John F. Kennedy : 46

LONGEST-LIVING PRESIDENTS:

Ronald Regan: 93

John Adams: 90

Herbert Hoover: 90

MOST FREQUENT PRESIDENTIAL RELIGION:

EPISCOPALIAN: (11)

Note: All 3 Whig Party Presidents were Episcopalian!

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LEAST FREQUENT PRESIDENTIAL RELIGION:

A five-way tie!:

CONGREGATIONALIST

DEIST

LIBERAL

ROMAN CATHOLIC

SOUTHERN BAPTIST

Note: Only Andrew Johnson professed no religion at all.

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PRESIDENT WHO FATHERED THE MOST CHILDREN:

John Tyler had fifteen children!

(Only William Henry Harrison comes close with 10 children to boast!)

AVERAGE NUMBER OF PRESIDENTIAL CHILDREN:

3

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AVERAGE PRESIDENTIAL HEIGHT*:

69 INCHES ( 5.8 Feet)

* The height of William Henry Harrison and James A. Garfield are UNRECORDED.

PLACED HEAD TO TOE, HERE'S THE COMBINED HEIGHT OF ALL PRESIDENTS:

242 Feet!

MOST COMMON CAREERS FOR A PRESIDENT PRIOR TO HIS PRESIDENCY:

Half of all U.S. Presidents (26) were Lawyers (Adams, Jefferson and Monroe were Farmer /Lawyers!)

6 Presidents were Farmers, the latest of which was Jimmy Carter.

MISCELLANEOUS STUFF

Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, married the

daughter of U.S. President Zachary Taylor. She died three months after marrying him.

In August of 1998, President Bill Clinton became the first President ever to testify in before a Grand Jury

as a candidate for indictment in a criminal investigation! That is something Nixon did not even do in the

Watergate Crisis.

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The following Trivia was taken from useless-facts.com, too interesting to pass up for my site!

 

Franklin Pierce is the only President to have said "I promise" instead of "I swear" at his Inauguration. He did it for religious reasons.

Thanks to Sarah Olson (sarahlolson@hotmail.com) of Valley Stream, New York.

Ronald Reagan married his first wife, Jane Wyman, at Forest Lawn Cemetary in Glendale, California.

Thanks to Kenneth W. Calhoun (ocelotken@yahoo.com) of Torrance, California.

At Andrew Jackson's funeral in 1845, his pet parrot had to be removed because it was swearing.

Bill Clinton is the only President ever to be elected twice without ever receiving 50% of the popular vote. He had 43 percent in 1992 and 49 percent in 1996.

Coolidge's Vice President Charles Dawes earned a Nobel Peace Prize.

Hoover's, Franklin Roosevelt's, Truman's and Nixon's Secretaries of State have won Noble Peace Prizes.

Andrew Jackson is the only President to have also been held as a prisoner of war. This was during the Revolutionary War.

Thanks to Amy Delavan (ajodela@iastate.edu) of Tabor, Iowa.

The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.

Grover Cleveland's real first name is Stephen, Grover is his middle name.

The only President to be head of a labor union was Ronald Reagan.

Thanks to Christopher Bates (cbates@media.ucla.edu) of Los Angeles, California.

When George Washington was elected President, there was a king in France, a czarina in Russia, an emperor in China, and a shogun in Japan. Only the office of President remains.

George Washington had to borrow money to go to his own inauguration.

After Thomas Jefferson was sworn in as President of the United States, he returned to his boarding house for dinner. Every seat was taken, and no man stood up to offer the new President a seat. After an uncomfortable silence, the wife of a senator from Kentucky offered her seat. A true Southern gentleman, Jefferson politely declined.

Thanks to Jocelyn Little (jocelyn1pa@aol.com) of Camp Hill, Pennsylvania.

Only three Presidents graduated from the military academies: Grant and Eisenhower (West Point) and Carter (Annapolis).

Thanks to Steve Cross (DevBen@juno.com) of Burlington, Massachusetts.

George Washington, who commanded the Continental Army as a four-star general, was promoted posthumously to the position of six-star "General of the Armies of Congress" by an order of Jimmy Carter, who felt America's first President should also be America's highest military official.

Andrew Johnson, the 17th President, was the only self-educated tailor. He is the only President to make his own clothes as well as his cabinet's.

Thanks to Jarrod Galm (jgalm@znet.com) of San Diego, California.

By the time FDR's mother died, in 1941, FDR had presided over at least eight annual budgets of the largest fiscal entity on earth. Yet during her lifetime, Sara Delano Roosevelt did not entrust her son with managing the family's money because she did not think her son up to the task.

The first President to ride in an automobile was William McKinley. After being shot, he was taken to the hospital in a 1901 Columbia electric ambulance.

Thanks to Jeff King (jking@iglobal.net) of Krum, Texas.

There were two Presidents whose names contained double letters in both their first and last names: William Harrison and Millard Fillmore.

Thanks to Demian Shown (swankd@rt66.com) of Owensboro, Kentucky.

Warren G. Harding was the first American President to visit Canada. He stopped in Vancouver, British Columbia while he was on his way to Alaska.

Thanks to Makie Sanchez (makie@juno.com) of New York, New York.

Gerald Ford was the only President to have two women attempt to assassinate him. Both attempts were in California in September of 1975. The first attempt was September 6, 1975, by Lynette Fromme who thought she could impress Charles Manson by killing the President. The next attempt was by Sara Jane Moore on September 22, 1975. Her motive was simply that she was bored. Later, she was pronounced mentally unstable.

Thanks to Kirsten Otterby (dauphin4@ix.netcom.com) of Des Moines, Iowa.

John Tyler, President from 1841 to 1845, joined the Confederacy twenty years later and became the only President named a sworn enemy of the United States.

Thanks to EJC II (steelers@cvn.net) of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

William Howard Taft was the first President to own a car.

The only non-Presidents to adorn US currency are: $1 coin, Susan B. Anthony; $10 bill, Alexander Hamilton; $100 bill, Benjamin Franklin; $10,000 bill, Salmon P. Chase.

Thanks to Jeff K. (JeffK144@aol.com) of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first U.S. President to have a Presidential aircraft. He only flew on the airplane, a specially equipped Douglas DC-4 nicknamed "The Sacred Cow," once; to travel to the Yalta Conference during World War II. It was equipped with an elevator so that the President could board the plane while remaining in his wheelchair. The aircraft currently is on display at the USAF museum in Dayton, Ohio.

Thanks to Chris Culbertson (cculb@mdta.mdc.com) of Irvine, California, United_States.

Ronald Reagan was the oldest President elected to office.

Thanks to John Herschberger (mreynolds@arthur.k12.il.us) of Arthur, Illinois, United_States.

Only two U.S. Presidents and their wives are buried at the Arlington National Cemetery: John F. Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and William Taft and his wife Helen Heron Taft.

Thanks to James Scott (jascott@bigfoot.com) of Fresno, California.

Taft was the last President with facial hair.

Thanks to Matt Polazzo (mpolazzo@arctos.bowdoin.edu) of Brooklyn, New York.

President Andrew Jackson spent most of his adult life with a bullet no more than two inches away from his heart as a result of a duel he fought before becoming President.

Thanks to Amanda Tardy (tardya@rockbridge.net) of Lexington, Virginia.

Jimmy Carter was the first President born in a hospital.

Thanks to Doug Dickinson (mailto:dougd@pobox.com) of Rockford, Illinois.

William Henry Harrison was the only President to study medicine.

James Buchanan is said to have had the neatest handwriting of all the Presidents.

Harrison was the only President born in the same county as his vice president.

Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy Davis appeared opposite each other in the movie "Hellcats of the Navy."

When the Hoovers did not want to be overheard by White House guests, they spoke to each other in Chinese.

Louisa Adams, wife of John Quincy Adams, was the first and only foreign-born first lady.

Warren G. Harding's middle name is Gamaliel.

Thanks to Erin (bugito@mm.com) of Minnetonka, Minnesota.

The Coolidge family spoke in sign language when they did not want to be overheard.

Martin Van Buren was the only incumbent President to run for re-election without a Vice Presidential running-mate.

Thanks to John Cooper (vkjs22a@prodigy.com) of Windermere, Florida.

According to historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, Lyndon Johnson loved the soda Fresca so much he had a fountain installed in the Oval Office that dispensed the beverage, which the president could operate by pushing a button on his desk chair. Fresca is a grapefruit-flavored soda sold on the East Coast.

Thanks to Matt Walcoff (mwalcoff@wam.umd.edu) of Orange Village, Ohio.

All U.S. Presidents have worn glasses, some of them just didn't like to be seen with them in public.

Abe Lincoln's mother died when the family dairy cow ate poisonous mushrooms and Ms. Lincoln drank the milk.

John Tyler, Andrew Johnson, Millard Fillmore and Chester Arthur did not make Inaugural Addresses.

Gerald Ford was once a male model.

Gerald Ford was born Leslie Lynch King, Jr.

Thanks to Michael Lorton (mlorton@eshop.com.)

President James Garfield could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other.

Thanks to Gene Weaver (0ew@cyberhighway.net) of Springfield, Oregon.

The Panama Canal was excavated from the coasts inland; the final short segment was cleared by explosives detonated by President Woodrow Wilson, who sent the signal by wire from New York City.

Thanks to Peter Bacon (kato@cts.com) of San Diego, California.

A book published in 1940 contained 370 proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem, including one by President James Garfield.

Thanks to Grant R. Hutchins (ghutch@ionet.net) of Edmond, Oklahoma.

Theodore Roosevelt's wife and mother died on the same day.

Thanks to Mark of Colorado Springs, Colorado.

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